Shott v. Korn

This case is here on error to the judgment of the superior court of Cincinnati. In that court it was an action for the wrongful death of Benjamin Shott. The trial court at the conclusion of plaintiff’s testimony on motion of the defendants directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendants.

The accident occurred at 8.37 o’clock on the evening of May 5, 1912. Benjamin Shott was killed by being struck by an electric automobile, the property of Edna Farrin Korn, at the intersection of Rockdale avenue and Reading road in this city. Shortly before the accident it had been raining, but it was…